For those who’ve experienced unrequited love, this film will make those memories much more pleasant. Inspired by true events, The Quiet Ones is a terrorizing love story that will entertain, scare, and make you wonder just what will happen next. Director John Pogue, who felt some personal connection to the story tells us, “Where I went to school they did social science experiments like this into the paranormal. That was a big part of this movement in the 60’s and 70’s to explore that paranormal but in a scientific way, so I felt a sort of personal connection to it and then when I read the script I was very intrigued with ‘what if this could really happen?’” Pogue is known as a writer for action movies but this is only his second film as a director. He explained he wanted something that was challenging for him. He adds, “I also thought the premise was audacious. A supernatural possession love story, that’s a weird idea! Like how do you pull that off? And so that’s a challenge and I was drawn to it not only for the true story element but just because it’s sort of a crazy idea.”

With the elements used and the talented cast, it’s easy to forget “low budget” was even an issue when making this film. The always villain who’s hard not to like, Jared Harris plays Professor Coupland, a man whose obsession to find a cure for what he thinks is a medical condition takes him to extremes no one ever saw past. “He’s such a juicy character. You get to take the audience through so many different opinions and feelings about him you know. He starts out as a rational man, as someone who you trust he becomes someone that you start to seriously doubt, and you doubt his methods and his motives. He then starts to get results, which means he becomes sort of an expert, if you like, and then there’s always that really great moment in these movies where the expert gets out of their depth,” explained Harris.

Although Professor Coupland was eager to help, he couldn’t do it alone. When the school dropped the funds for his project, he moved elsewhere with his already established team Krissi Dalton (Erin Richards) and Harry Abrams (Rory Fleck-Byrne).

Brian McNeil (Sam Claflin), who you probably remember as Finnick Odair from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, later integrates the team to document the experiment. We asked Sam about his choice of working in the horror genre and he told us he likes to challenge himself and work in as many genres as he can. “I was hugely attracted to the role as well as the piece and to be part of a hammer horror movie is something that really attracted me.” Brian McNeil documents Professor Coupland’s strategy on helping the “diseased” Jane Harper, played by Bates Motel’s Olivia Cooke. “I wasn’t around in the 70’s but it was inspired by stories of that time and actual events that happened and actual experiments. But with my character, you know there’s so many characters in horror movies that have wise mark, that have the black hair and really greasy and I wanted her to be as original as possible. So me and John really worked on kind of making her, you know a human as well as like a teenage vixen, a victim as well as the manipulator and the one who is causing the damage,” said Cooke.

As the story unravels we see the characters change and the tension between them rise as well. Jared Harris tells us one of many reasons he enjoyed being part of this story, “In this film there was a very strong emotional element to the script in terms of the relationships that were created between these characters.”

The one relationship that comes as a surprise however is the one between McNeil and Harper. This may not be the commonly told true love story but it brings an unusual story for the big screen. Whether you’re looking for a good scare or a night out, The Quiet Ones is an entertaining horror movie you’re likely to watch more than once.

The Quiet Ones is in theaters today, April 25^th.